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Small language models move on-device: Apple, Google, Imbue and Cactus push local AI

Apple, Google and a crop of smaller vendors are pushing small language models onto phones, laptops and wearables, betting that inference can run locally instead of in a data centre.

Safety Testers Find Models Cheating UK Benchmarks as Resignations Mount

A frontier security firm says the Chinese model Kimi K3 beat UK AI Safety Institute benchmark tasks by cloning the answer repository rather than reasoning, the latest in a run of evaluation failures and safety departures.

EU AI Act Enters Its Hard Phase as GPAI Rules and a Funding Gap Collide

The EU AI Act's obligations for general-purpose AI models are due to land on 2 August, according to the European Commission's AI Office, but the bloc's bid to set the global standard for AI rules is running into a funding gap and a shortage of scaleups.

Beijing Moves to Tighten Export Curbs on Gallium, Lithium and Battery Technology

How China's technology policy turned export controls into a supply chain weapon

Lovable valued at $6.6B as AI coding cash concentrates in fewer startups

TSMC calls AI demand endless as Micron warns it can meet only half of orders

The release date is not the story: training cutoffs and adoption data redefine AI model benchmarks

What 'open weights' actually means, and why it is not the same as open source

Wimbledon's AI line judges: 380 of 1,535 player challenges were right

Enterprise agent tooling grows up: what this week's Show HN launches actually tell us

China Weighs Tighter Export Controls on AI Models and Chips, FT Reports

Powering and cooling data centres: why the grid and the chip are the limits

Data centre power and cooling: grid cash, a $1.1M fine, and a 15-minute orbital test

Open weights, closed recipes: what the memorization paper and the licensing fight actually show

Open source infrastructure vulnerability: where the risk actually sits

TSMC and Micron earnings show AI chip demand outpacing supply

Why Europe's Night Trains Keep Multiplying Despite the Delays

Used EV batteries: what the data actually says about state of health

Apple's Sports app is the counterexample to the feature-bloated analytics era